The Wasp — 1896 — page 698: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is not a satirical cartoon but rather promotional journalism celebrating California's industrial achievement. The page features photographs and text documenting the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, founded in 1849 by Peter and James Donahue. The content traces the company's growth from a small blacksmith shop to a major shipbuilder producing modern warships. Two images show: (1) a ship launch ceremony with crowds gathered, and (2) "The Model Warship of To-Day," identified as the cruiser *Oregon*. The text emphasizes California pride in industrial progress and names Irving M. Scott and Henry T. Scott as the famous builders of "the fleetest, most modern and most formidable fighting machines on the waters of the universe." This appears to be straightforward industrial boosterism rather than satire.